Chetniks

The Chetniks were a Serbian nationalist group formed in 1904. They were active for many decades, but they were most important during the 1940s when they served as a resistance movement against the Axis Powers during World War II. Led by Draza Mihailovic, they were initially supported by the Allied Powers against Nazi Germany's occupying forces, but they were involved in ethnic cleansing and later collaborated with the Axis Powers against Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslav Partisans. They massacred Croats in mixed Serbian-Croat areas and Bosnian Muslims in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Sandak, and after the war Mihailovic and the leaders of the Chetniks were either executed or imprisonede for war crimes and treason.